Validation of a PCR for diagnosis of typhoid fever and salmonellosis by amplification of the hilA gene in clinical samples from Colombian patients

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 875-878

  Sanchez Jimenez M M ^a,b   Cardona Castro, Nora ^a,c  

^a Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HILA GENE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA CHOLERAESUIS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TYPHOID FEVER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; COLOMBIA; FECES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 4544234913     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45630-0     Document Type: Article

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